Kharoshthi (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Kharoshthi
RangeU+10A00..U+10A5F
(96 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsKharoshthi
Major alphabetsGandhari
Sanskrit
Assigned68 code points
Unused28 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.165 (+65)
11.068 (+3)
Note: [1][2]

Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE.


History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kharoshthi block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/02-424 McGowan, Rick (2002-11-20), Supplementary Information to Accompany L2/02-203R2, Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi 
L2/03-314R2 N2732 Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan; Salomon, Richard (2003-09-18), Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 
N2956 Freytag, Asmus (2005-08-12), Unicode Consortium Liaison Report for WG2 Meeting #47 
L2/05-180 Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes, "Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box..." 
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 
11.0 U+10A34..10A35, 10A48 3 L2/17-012 N4812 Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2017-01-17), Additional Characters for Kharoṣṭhī Script 
L2/17-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard et al. (2017-01-21), Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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